Previous Consultations

Previous health and care consultations undertaken across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Health and Care Partnership. This includes engagement that was undertaken by the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Clinical…

Councillor Tracey Stock appointed Chair Designate of new Integrated Care Partnership

Councillor Tracey Stock has been appointed Chair Designate for the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Partnership, which will be established on 1 July 2022. Ward Councillor for Sandy, Beeston…

NHS campaign encourages organisations to Break the Bias this International Women’s Day

A campaign group promoting flexible working across the NHS is encouraging organisations to Break the Bias this International Women’s Day by asking leaders to talk about how they juggle their lives in…

Social Care Support

Social care services are delivered by local councils in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes. Council social care services provide information, support and advice with: the elderly who…

New health and wellbeing app launches to support health staff in the local area

Primary Care staff across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes are now able to access a new app designed to give each person the power to be resilient, live with confidence…

Your Local Hospitals and Trusts

The people who live in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes are served by three hospitals. Your acute hospitals: Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust…

Voluntary, community and social enterprise Partners

The Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector is a vital cornerstone of our integrated care system in BLMK.  The sector’s values based culture bring deep connections into our diverse…

FAQs

Our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are intended to help visitors to our website. We have outlined some questions we are regularly asked providing links to pages within our website or…

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My Health and Care

Share for Care Organisations

The organisations taking part in the Share for Care programme are: NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board GP practices across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Hertfordshire and…

Shared Health and Care Record Communications Materials

We have developed the following communications materials to help raise awareness of the Shared Health and Care Record. Please download and share with residents. document.documentElement.classList.add('k-js-enabled'); Title Date If you would…

Share for Care

Better, safer, quicker care for you A confidential electronic record sharing system, Share for Care, is being rolled out to improve health and care across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.…

Join our Mailing List

Join our mailing list to keep informed about the work we and our partners are doing. We post regular updates on social media channels, we issue press releases to local…

Your Health and Care

We want to help you know where to go for help and advice. For help on which NHS service you should use, visit our Find a Service page. For advice…

Partner Newsletter: issue 3

Welcome to the third edition of our partner newsletter for the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Health and Care Partnership. In this issue: how social prescribing saved a lifeshining a…

Medicines Management

Good medicines management means that patients receive effective and safer care. It focusses on the prescribing of medicines ensuring patients get the best use from them. Medicines Management website To…

BLMK CCG Governing Body

29 March 2022 All day For more information visit the CCG website. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live  

ICS Partnership Board meeting

Integrated Care Partnership Joint Committee

The NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board became a statutory organisation on 1 July 2022. The Integrated Care Partnership is a joint Committee of the Integrated Care Board…

Operational and Clinical Excellence

This priority is about providing the highest quality clinical services when people need them. Over the next five years, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) will be running a programme…

Finance

As of 1 July 2022, the Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for all funding for healthcare across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes. Financial framework A financial framework will support…

Communications and Engagement

It is always important to listen to what people want from their health and care services. During the pandemic, we carried out a large-scale communications and engagement campaign to support…

Estates

Our Estates Strategy will need to consider a variety of factors including the location of services and whether buildings are set up to deliver the specific services they need to.…

Ways of working

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Health and Care Partnership is an ‘Integrated Care System’.  NHS organisations, local councils, Healthwatch, and voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations work in partnership to improve the health…

Workforce

Our ambition is for Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) to be an attractive place to work, learn and live. We want our residents to become part of the high-performing…

Data and Digital

Improving how we use data and increasing digitally enabled care. Increasing the use of digital technology and innovation can have real benefits for our population. It can help to prevent…

Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse

Safeguarding As a commissioning organisation, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Clinical Integrated Care Board (ICB) have a statutory duty to ensure that all health providers, from whom we commission services…

Media enquiries

If you are a member of the media, or if you have any media enquiries, you need to pass to our press office, you can email our media desk: blmkicb.communications@nhs.net…

Enquiries, Concerns and Complaints

We work hard with our providers to deliver consistent, high quality healthcare services, but we do appreciate that things do not always go to plan. When things go wrong, and…

Our Partners

The Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes area operates as an Integrated Care System. It allows NHS organisations, local councils and voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to work in partnership to…

Reducing Inequalities

In everything we do we promote equalities in the health and wellbeing of our population. The Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care System (ICS) works to reduce inequalities…

Growth

We work together to help build the economy and support sustainable growth. This priority aims to maximise the opportunities for social and economic development, including environmental sustainability and economic growth,…

Age Well

People age well, with proactive interventions to stay healthy, independent and active as long as possible. Around one in seven of the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) population is…

Live Well

People are supported to engage with and manage their health and wellbeing. Healthy life expectancy varies significantly across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK). In Luton, women can expect to…

Start Well

Every child has a strong, healthy start to life; from maternal health, through the first thousand days, to reaching adulthood. Our work will focus on: Supporting families Ensuring that all…

Our Priorities

Ours is a vibrant area, rich in cultural heritage, but there is poor health and inequality within our boundaries. Our aim is that everyone in our towns, villages and communities…

Audit Chair appointed to emerging NHS Integrated Care Board

ANDREW Blakeman has been appointed as the Audit Chair for the new NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board, when it takes on statutory responsibilities on 1 July…

Third Non-Executive Member appointed to Integrated Care Board

Alison Borrett has been appointed to the NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board, as its third Non-Executive Member, when it takes on statutory responsibilities on 1 July…

Remuneration Chair appointed to Integrated Care Board

SHIRLEY Pointer has been appointed as the Chair of the Remuneration Committee for the NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board, when it takes on statutory responsibilities on…

Advocacy services

BLMK NHS staff playing their part to vaccinate residents

In December 2021, NHS staff from Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) were redeployed to the frontline of the vaccination programme to protect vulnerable residents against the Omicron variant of…

Health and social care leaders collaborate to deliver your future care

Local health and social care professionals have welcomed the launch of a new system which will enable them to view and share important information about your treatment and conditions. This…

Get Involved

Tell us what is most important to you. We want everyone who lives in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes to have the opportunity to shape the services…

Join Our Workforce

Looking for a rewarding career? If you are passionate about health and care, there may be a chance to pursue a career in the sector. Perhaps you been volunteering in…

Health and Care Partnership FAQs

The Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Health and Care Partnership was established as a joint committee on 1 July 2022. We have produced some frequently asked questions (FAQs) to help…

COVID-19

For help and advice with COVID-19: Vaccination appointments and information Vaccination sites in BLMK Long COVID/Post COVID-19 syndrome

Contact us

If you would like to contact us, need more information or would like to send feedback, please follow the relevant contact link below. Patient Enquiries and Complaints If you wish…

Publications

Search for documents Find by title or description… Search in Document title and description Document contents, title and description Search Reset Loading… Annual Reports  (5) ARC Fellowship Programme  (2) Bedfordshire…

Health and Wellbeing Boards

A Health and Wellbeing Board is a forum that includes political, clinical, professional and community leaders from across the care and health system to improve outcomes for people living in…

NHS Integrated Care Board

The NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board became a statutory organisation on 1 July 2022. The Integrated Care Board replaces the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Clinical…

Your Health and Care Partnership

Our Vision Our vision is for everyone in our city, towns, villages and communities to live a longer, healthier life. Data and expertise from our partners will help us to…

Dr Vijay Nayar on Bedford Borough cases rising – How to protect yourself and others

Dr Roshan Jayalath on Bedford Borough cases rising – How to protect yourself and others

News

ICS Partner Newsletter: Issue 02

Welcome to the second edition of our partner newsletter for the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care System. Each month, we’ll bring you the latest news for our area,…

Lee tells us about Leighton Linslade Helpers and how they’re supporting local families.

Dr Ed Sivils explains how to access local medical services

Bea explains why it’s important to volunteer at a vaccination centre

Bea Scholes explains why it’s important to volunteer at a vaccination centre after being inspired by her mom.

Samantha tells us about being redeployed as a vaccinator

Samantha Golton Scholes has been redeployed from her role in the NHS and is now working as a trained vaccinator

Keeping it in the family

Over the last few months, a local family from Flitwick have rallied together to support the NHS vaccination programme in many different ways. Earlier this year Samantha Golton Scholes, a…

Big local institutions come together to discuss the future of Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.

Local hospitals, councils, social care, emergency services, universities and rail companies, recently came together alongside other big local institutions, to discuss the future of health and living in Bedfordshire, Luton…

“I’ve gained my life back thanks to social prescribing”

Jamie’s life changed forever when Social Prescriber, Victoria, walked in on an unintentional suicide attempt at their initial consultation. Since then, the two have worked closely together to save Jamie’s…

Local health system awarded funding to help reduce patient waiting lists.

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care System (BLMK ICS) has been awarded funding to help the local health system reduce patient waiting lists which have increased during the Covid…

Reflecting on 2021 – Director of Adults’ Services, Bedford Borough Council

Kate Walker, Director of Adults’ Services, Bedford Borough Council It’s amazing how quickly 2021 has flown by and the ongoing pandemic has continued to be tough for all of us,…

Reflecting on 2021

Laura Church, CEO, Bedford Borough Council 2021 has been a year of real challenge, change and opportunity for me. I took on a new role at Luton Borough Council in…

Winter pressures aren’t just for Christmas

Dr Ian Reckless, Deputy CEO and Medical Director, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Winter started early for the health and care system. The season has always been a…

Winter Pressures Podcast

In this episode of BLMK Health Conversation On… we are looking at some of the big considerations as we enter the winter months. We discuss all the good work we are…

How the Population Health Management approach helped Jane who spent every day in the front…

One of the key reasons I enjoy my role so much is because I get to help people tackle the problems that matter to them. Social prescribers like myself keep…

Welcome to the website of the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care System. 

We’re ambitious for the health and wellbeing of the great people who live in our city, towns, villages and communities. You can read our health and care strategy here. You…

Health Inequalities Podcast

In the first episode of the BLMK Health Conversations podcast, we are celebrating Black History Month and discussing how we engage with the broad cultural landscape in our area. We…

Health Conversations on…Podcast series

We have launched a ‘BLMK Health Conversations On…’ podcast. The podcast is hosted by Felicity Cox, Executive Lead of the BLMK Integrated Care System. The podcast show is for anyone…